I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I've never been a yes man.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese.

Only the educated are free.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good.

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.